First Year PL's at Universities

[Mister C]

SIGCSE has done its annual survey of first year languages at Universities and the primary languages used in CS curricula

Here are the results (First Year Languages)

2001-2002

C- 11% C++ -40% Java- 49% Ada -4% Pascal-2%

(Primary Languages used in Curricula)

2001-2002

C++ -53% Java 51% C- 22% Ada- 2% Pascal %2 Smalltalk- 2%


Your thoughts on these results....

[MethodMan]

Well universities are finally realizing how important OOP is becoming. C++, Java, and Smalltalk are based on OOP, and Ive learned all of them, C++ and Smalltalk in an OO course.

Although I dont think procedureal programs such as C, will just vanish into thin air, I think its hard for people like myslef to program in something like C, when I have been doing so much OO.

I think they are taking the right steps.